Actor Ken Howard Dies at Age 71
Actor Ken Howard Dies at Age 71
#1Actor Ken Howard Dies at Age 71
Posted: 3/23/16 at 4:55pm
Tony & Emmy Award winning actor (and president of the Screen Actors Guild) Ken Howard died earlier today. The original Thomas Jefferson in 1776 which he of course got to reprise on screen.
REST IN PACE
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Tony-and-Emmy-Winner-Ken-Howard-Dies-at-71-20160323
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#2Actor Ken Howard Dies at Age 71
Posted: 3/23/16 at 5:02pm
Saw him in 1776, Seesaw & Promises Promises. I also remember him from The White Shadow. He was also in a series called Cane on CBS which also started Rita Moreno and Jimmy Smits.
A large loss for the acting community . R.I.P.
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#3Actor Ken Howard Dies at Age 71
Posted: 3/23/16 at 5:34pm
Sad news. He was a favorite, especially in "1776". He co-starred with Gwyneth Paltrow frequently and her husband Bruce created "The White Shadow". Aside from "1776" he co-starred with Paltrow in the short lived ABC situation comedy, "Adam's Rib".
May he R.I.P.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#4Actor Ken Howard Dies at Age 71
Posted: 3/23/16 at 5:42pm
He co-starred with Gwyneth Paltrow
You meant to say actress Blythe Danner - actress Gwyneth Paltrow's mother.
#5Actor Ken Howard Dies at Age 71
Posted: 3/23/16 at 6:26pm
He is so great in the SEESAW cast album and in everything else I've seen him in. I always loved his appearances at the SAG Awards. RIP, Mr. Howard, thank you for the great work you left behind.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
mamaleh
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#6Actor Ken Howard Dies at Age 71
Posted: 3/23/16 at 6:39pm
Sad news. I admired his performances in 1776, CHILDS PLAY and SEESAW. Sympathies to his family.
10086sunset
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/16
#7Actor Ken Howard Dies at Age 71
Posted: 3/23/16 at 6:42pm
Shame. He will be missed.
He was rather passionate regarding the Sag-Aftra merger.
#8Actor Ken Howard Dies at Age 71
Posted: 3/23/16 at 6:53pm
He was absolutely hysterical in the later seasons of 30 Rock. Never realized that was Jefferson!
#9Actor Ken Howard Dies at Age 71
Posted: 3/23/16 at 7:19pm
RIP. Thought he was great in 1776 and The White Shadow. Seemed like a truly classy guy.
EditGrl
Swing Joined: 1/6/16
#10Actor Ken Howard Dies at Age 71
Posted: 3/23/16 at 9:26pm
So sad. I had a chance to meet him after a performance of 1776 at Ford's Theatre a few years ago, and he was nothing but gracious in the face of a 30-something woman babbling about how that show changed her life.
#11Actor Ken Howard Dies at Age 71
Posted: 3/23/16 at 10:26pm
I saw him first when I was a teenager as the handsome heroic gym teacher at a Catholic boys' school where the boys were possessed by the devil.
You can probably see why I was so captivated by him and then again by his performance in Seesaw.
#12Actor Ken Howard Dies at Age 71
Posted: 3/23/16 at 11:22pm
He was probably my very first crush when I saw the film version of "1776", I thought that his red hair was amazing (I didn't know it was a wig). I watched every episode of "Adam's Rib" and "The White Shadow". He was such an amazing actor!
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#13Actor Ken Howard Dies at Age 71
Posted: 3/24/16 at 10:18pm
I had the pleasure of working with Ken Howard at the Gateway Playhouse in 1966. He played Joe Cable in South Pacific. May he rest in peace.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
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